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Reggie Watts' beats defy boxes. Unplug your logic board and watch as he blends poetry and crosses musical genres in this larger-than-life performance.

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Also recommend everything by Reggie Watts, a master of the vocal layering technique. His TED talk is one for the ages: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdHK_r9RXTc
Your comment reminded me of Reggie Watts’ TED talk where he impersonates an intellectual TED talk by stringing together random big words in a British accent.

https://youtu.be/BdHK_r9RXTc?t=55

kgwgk
Micro is macro. Small is big. Up is down. I'm a clown! Digital.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KuTSAeFhdZU

inopinatus
You got me. I actually do have a British accent.

but I don't have his hair

Jun 13, 2017 · boondaburrah on Buzzword Ipsum
Here is Reggie Watts, at actual TED, near as I can tell live synthesizing a ted-talk out of radiation picked up through his hair.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdHK_r9RXTc

Write it. Always thought about it, never seen it... except for Reggie Watts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdHK_r9RXTc
Mar 16, 2015 · the_cat_kittles on The Church of TED
from one of the comments on that link, its reggie watts satirizing TED in a TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdHK_r9RXTc
Mar 15, 2015 · delish on The Church of TED
I watch this Reggie Watts talk when I need a pick-me-up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdHK_r9RXTc

adriand
Simply brilliant. I understand some of the criticism of TED but I've seen stuff - like this clip - that is so damn good, I don't really see what all the fuss is about.

And since we're talking about Reggie Watts, I have to share my fave of his: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bLFO4ZV0i4

Has it been confirmed that Reggie Watts is not a robot and has not already won this prize?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdHK_r9RXTc

Scienz
Yeah, I was already wondering how they were going to reconcile that particular speech with whatever nuances of the prize rules would be required to keep people from giving a speech like that one.

It gets weirder when you consider that a) an AI could have plausibly (though not likely) have generated such a speech in answer to a real question (for example, "discuss a flaw in the TED program", and b) no one rejected Watts' talk as unacceptable, though they probably would have if an AI had generated the same talk.

jere
That video is the perfect response for why this is a silly idea. A clever chat bot can beat the Turing test, but in a TED talk you don't even have to deal with probing questions. All you have to do is babble on about something vaguely inspiring.
Dec 17, 2013 · mxfh on We Need to Talk About TED
Reggie Watts pretty much said it all back in 2012.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdHK_r9RXTc

Hard to imagine how anyone could follow up after this.

adregan
It's an amazing speech.
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